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Fired Shotshell Components

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Components of a shot pellet load
(primer, powder, pellets, wadding, and casing)

Courtesy of Jack Dillon

The construction and components of shotshells are described in depth in Module 5.

Shotshells may be comprised of a number of components:

  • Card (paper) or fiber disks
  • Plastic wadding components
  • Lead, steel, bismuth, or tungsten alloy shot pellets
  • Shotgun slugs
  • Shot buffer materials (granular plastic particulate)

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